Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players. It doesn't look like the American East will invite the nations only independent to join, but we are putting the New Jersey Institute of Technology there after their big upset of Michigan several days after almost upsetting Marquette. The would be right in the mix for the title with Vermont, Albany and Stony Point if in fact Jameel Warney is back for another near All-American level season.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

29

American East & NJIT

AE

8.79

169

NJ Inst of Technology

21--12

14.43

15.13

184

Vermont

20--14

8.11

14.05

196

Stony Brook

23--12

7.46

13.05

198

Albany

24--9

7.20

12.91

242

New Hampshire

19--13

5.31

10.07

310

Massachusetts Lowell

12--17

6.69

6.52

320

Hartford

14--16

3.68

5.73

328

Binghamton

6--26

5.57

5.11

344

Maryland Baltimore Co

4--26

3.91

3.34

349

Maine

3--27

1.23

1.93

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

25

Warney, Jameel 20

Stony Brook

6'8

4 Sr

8.12

96

Wills, Dre 24

Vermont

6'1

3 Jr

6.27

366

O'Day, Ethan 32

Vermont

6'9

4 Sr

4.11

386

Walker, Ahmad

Albany/maybe

6'4

3 Jr

4

402

Willis, Winfield 11

NJ Inst of Technology

6'0

4 Sr

3.98

440

Ward, Cam 14

Vermont

6'2

2 So

3.82

448

McRoberts, Zach 1

Vermont

6'6

2 So

3.8

461

Coleman, Tim 2

NJ Inst of Technology

6'5

3 Jr

3.73

605

Nyama, Roland 24

Stony Brook

6'6

2 So

3.19

720

Sanders, Ray 1

Albany

6'4

4 Sr

2.88

732

Singletary, Evan 0

Albany

6'1

4 Sr

2.84

757

Bell-Haynes, Trae 2

Vermont

6'2

2 So

2.79

779

Thomas, Jahad 10

Massachusetts Lowell

6'2

2 So

2.71

885

Rodriguez, Willie 42

Binghamton

6'6

2 So

2.48

890

Leissner, Tanner 21

New Hampshire

6'6

2 So

2.48

910

Steidel, Kurt 34

Vermont

6'6

3 Jr

2.44

913

Grant, Jourdan 5

Maryland Baltimore Co

6'2

2 So

2.42

941

Smith, Jaleen 0

New Hampshire

6'4

3 Jr

2.37

990

Lynn, Damon 5

NJ Inst of Technology

5'11

3 Jr

2.27

1106

Ukawuba, Rob 25

NJ Inst of Technology

6'3

3 Jr

2.1

1128

Puriefoy, Carson 10

Stony Brook

6'0

4 Sr

2.05

1149

Crawford, Lance 0

Massachusetts Lowell

5'10

2 So

2.02

1236

Hatton, Brandon 0

Vermont

6'3

2 So

1.92

1249

McGrew, Rayshaun 21

Stony Brook

6'7

4 Sr

1.89

1277

Hooley, Peter 12

Albany

6'4

4 Sr

1.84

1286

Harris, Matt 22

Massachusetts Lowell

6'1

2 So

1.84

1287

Howard, Ky 0

NJ Inst of Technology

6'4

4 Sr

1.84

1508

Sturdivant, Tyrell 12

Stony Brook

6'7

2 So

1.56

1732

Graham, Justin 2

Hartford

6'1

3 Jr

1.27

1781

Grace, Ben 3

Maryland Baltimore Co

5'10

3 Jr

1.21

1871

Stire, Greig 43

Albany

6'7

2 So

1.11

1878

Lawton, Shaun 10

Maine

6'5

4 Sr

1.11

1902

Rinaldi, John 12

Binghamton

6'1

3 Jr

1.09

1964

Green, Tre 2

Albany

6'3

3 Jr

1.01

2253

Speidel, Josh

Vermont

6'7

1 Fr

1

2327

Waller, Karon 0

Binghamton

6'4

4 Sr

0.93

2343

Dyson, Taylor 11

Hartford

6'4

4 Sr

0.92

2401

Arciero, Noah 20

Hartford

6'6

2 So

0.87

2609

Hobbs, Jack 21

Hartford

6'7

3 Jr

0.62

2696

Walker, Romello 11

Binghamton

6'6

2 So

0.51

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing
stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all
corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how good
they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.